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Table of Contents

UNIT 1: The Making of Americans

Chapter 1: What Europeans Found: The American Surprise
Chapter 2: An Assortment of Colonies
Chapter 3: New Ways in a New World

UNIT 2: Forming a New Nation 1763–1800

Chapter 4: The Road to Revolution and Victory
Chapter 5: From Confederation to Nation
Chapter 6: The United States Begins

UNIT 3: E pluribus unum: One Made from Many 1800–1840

Chapter 7: Jefferson in Power
Chapter 8: Struggles of a Young Nation
Chapter 9: The Jacksonian Era

UNIT 4: A Nation Growing and Dividing 1800–1860

Chapter 10: The Flourishing Land
Chapter 11: Reforming and Expanding
Chapter 12: The Failure of Politicians

UNIT 5: The Rocky Road to Union 1860–1890

Chapter 13: The Civil War
Chapter 14: To Punish or to Forgive?
Chapter 15: The Passing of the Frontier

UNIT 6: The New Industrial Age 1865–1900

Chapter 16: The Nation Transformed
Chapter 17: The Challenge of the Cities
Chapter 18: Politics in the Gilded Age

UNIT 7: Democratic Reforms and World Power 1890–1920

Chapter 19: The United States and the World
Chapter 20: The Progressive Era
Chapter 21: The United States and World War I

UNIT 8: From Boom to Bust

Chapter 22: Return to Normalcy, 1918–1929
Chapter 23: The Coming of the Great Depression

UNIT 9: Depression at Home and Aggression Abroad 1933–1945

Chapter 24: "Nothing to fear but fear itself"
Chapter 25: Reshaping American Life
Chapter 26: Clouds of War
Chapter 27: A World Conflict

UNIT 10: Postwar Problems 1945–1960

Chapter 28: Truman: Neither War nor Peace
Chapter 29: Eisenhower, Moderate Republican
Chapter 30: Mobile People and Magic Machines

UNIT 11: Turbulent Times 1961–1974

Chapter 31: Years of Hope and Promise
Chapter 32: LBJ: From the Great Society to Vietnam
Chapter 33: The Rise and Fall of Richard Nixon

UNIT 12: The United States Looks Ahead

Chapter 34: In Pursuit of Civil Rights for All
Chapter 35: Changing Leaders in Washington
Chapter 36: The Emergence of a New World

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